"Rule Zero" Netflix: No rules, only rules

Netflix: Employees with mediocre performance receive generous severance pay.

What do you think when you see the above sentence?
I say why?

Netflix can be said to be an out-of-the-box company, and their success cannot be said to be accidental. After reading it, the feeling is... such a perfect company system, ah~ other people's companies will not let me down.

Back to the premise: why do mediocre employees receive generous severance pay?

Let me ask you a question first, have you ever had the experience of "my colleagues are doing the tricks, I'm doing the performance, but we get the same salary"? You were originally full of energy and found a full sense of achievement in your work, but your colleagues around you, who are trying to fish in the water to be a salary thief, use their mobile phones to go to work, only to find that things can’t be done after get off work. "Wow, you are so serious." You work diligently during your working hours, but you get off work on time and are asked, "You get off work so early, what are you doing tonight?".

You are in trouble!

During the past entrepreneurial stage, the CEO of Netflix had to let go of some of his employees. It was later discovered that the remaining employees had achieved higher performance than before. Because being aggressive is contagious, which is why Netflix only needs top talent. For mediocre performers, we will give you a generous severance package, giving you enough time to find your next job. It may sound cruel, but it is a guarantee for the top people.

If you feel your decision is best for the company, do it without asking anyone at the top.

To achieve absolute trust and a high degree of authorization is not something that ordinary companies can do.

Friend S said, "Did you know? Even a roll of toilet paper in our company has to be signed layer by layer before we can get it!" This example may be too extreme, but it's a real event.

If a company doesn't trust the employees it hires, how does it ask employees to do their best? Netflix can achieve 100% trust, and it also starts to stack by hiring excellent employees. First, the foundation must be stabilized before high-rise buildings can be built. The twisted structure should be leveled first! When companies are all first-class talents, it is much simpler to pursue "absolute trust".

When I was testing at a technology company, the old bird next door would often push her computer chair back slightly, peek at what I was doing, and think she was not moving. The colleague across from me was also being watched by the old bird next door to him. I felt like we were cheating men and women. The credit reporter told the owner what happened: "Oh! Nothing happened, they were just friends."

I usually don't have much interest in corporate CEO books. When I was shopping at Eslite last month, I was superficially attracted by the bright coats. When I was going to try it out, I found out, "Damn, it actually has a coating." I decided to buy it (I guess I wanted to spend money). On the surface, it is just the business philosophy of the CEO of Netflix, but it is not boring or boring at all. His unique thinking mode is full of surprises, which made me think along with it when I read it, and I finished reading it unknowingly. An exciting book to read and I want to recommend to my friends right away.

I hope the habitual bosses all over the world will read it, so that I don't have to keep thinking about changing jobs. (Just kidding 😂 )

Off topic, what have you been watching on Netflix lately? Recommendations are welcome.